Environment and Society· 2013Q1· Review
Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography
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Short summary
Multispecies ethnography integrates scholarship across biosciences, philosophy, and activism by examining the entangled lives of humans, animals, plants, and things.
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Key points
- Defines multispecies ethnography as an interdisciplinary approach.
- Connects multispecies ethnography to biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism.
- Highlights productive tensions within the existing literature.
- Encourages ethnographers to use 'speculative wonder' in inquiry and writing.
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Abstract
This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism. The article is organized around a set of productive tensions identified in the review of the literature. It ends with a discussion of the “ethnographic” in multispecies ethnography, urging ethnographers to bring a “speculative wonder” to their mode of inquiry and writing.
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